Born in Wigan, UK, lives and works between London & Wigan 

 

Education

2015 – 2019 PhD Candidate in Fine Art & Spatial Design  London Metropolitan University 

2009 - 2010 Master of Arts: The Body in Performance: Dance Theatre, Laban, London                                                                    

2006 - 2009 BA (Hons) in Fine Art and Photography, University of East London

2011 - 2013 PG Cert in Education - Post Compulsory, Institute of Education, London 

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Teaching & Workshop Facilitator 

2011 -2012 Workshop Facilitator, Performance Design & Practice Foundation, Central Saint Martin’s University

2012 Kensington & Chelsea College, Workshop Facilitator, BTEC Sculpture Course

2011, Part Time Tutor on BA Photography Course, UEL University

2011-2013, Workshop Facilitator for Performance, The Performance Art Depot, Mainz, Germany

 

Prizes, Awards, Grants & Artist Residences, Published,

2020 Soho Radio Interview on Celine’s Salon, https://sohoradiolondon.com/show/celines-salon-05-08-2020/

2019 Selected by the Culture Diary & Arts Council UK, to represent the UK Visual Arts in Hong Kong for Global Art Week: Art Basel

2017 World of Co, Artist Residency, Sofia, Bulgaria, September 2017

2017 Hackney Wicked Festival, Open Studios Bursary, London, UK  

2015 Make: Believe UK Design for Performance, 2011- 2015 The Society of British Theatre Designers Exhibition Catalogue

2014 Aesthetica Art Prize 2014 Anthology 100 Contemporary Artists: Installation

2014 Hackney Wicked Festival, Open Studios Bursary, London, UK  

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Public Art Commissions

May 2021 – Ongoing Fanfaron, placed on the roof of Hackney Wick Underground Arts Centre. Hackney Wick, London

Dec 2014– April 2017, Sorry for Today’s Blandness, Get Living London, Entrance Foyer of Coville Mansions, E20

Dec 2014- April 2017, The Rules are in your head, Get Living London Entrance Foyer of Mira House, E20

 

Solo Shows

June 2020, ‘We had the experience but missed the meaning’, Elephant Gallery, London, was cancelled due to corvid, 

January 2019 Grey Gardens, Pop-Up Research Sculptural Installation, Saatchi Gallery, London

February 2016 'Look Again' Stour Space Art gallery, Fish Island, London, UK

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Group Shows

2020

Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival Open Exhibition 2020, Sept-Dec 2020

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2019

V&A Friday Late: Hackney Wick, London, 25 Oct 2019

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2017

Inside-Out, Here East, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London

Hackney Wicked Festival 2017, Open Studios

Nasty Women, Stour Space Gallery, Fish Island, London

Visual Flaneurs, World of Co Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

Modern Panic VIII, Apiary Studios, Bethnal Green, London

Emotional Spaces, The Performance Art Depot, Mainz, Germany,

 

2016

Sensorium, University of East London,

Greased Up, Micks Garage, Hackney Wick, London

Painting Connections, Things & UCL ISR & CASA & The London Festival of Architecture

 

2015

Make: Believe UK Design for Performance 2011-2015, V&A, London,

Open Studios, Hackney Wicked DIY Festival, London 

Open Studios, The London Festival of Architecture

 

2014

Open Studios, Blisters Show, Absorb Arts, London

The Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition, York Museums Trust, York

Juxtapose, The Darkroom Gallery, Vermont, USA

Open Studios, Hackney Wicked Festival, London

 

2013 Open Studios, Hackney Wicked Festival, London

2008 Who are we? BA Photography show, University of East London

2007 A Utopian World, BA Photography Show, University of East London

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Dance/Live Performance/Exhibition

2013 Deliberate Digression, The Performance Art Depot, Mainz, Germany

2013 The Modern Dreamer, Critical Costumes Symposium, Edge Hill University

2012 The Modern Dreamer. Space Station 65 Gallery, London

2012 The Modern Dreamer, Duckie at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London

2012 The Modern Dreamer, The Performance Art Depot Pad, Mainz, Germany

2012 The End of the World, The Performance Art Depot, Mainz, Germany

2011 The Spectacle, Duckie at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London

2011 Pop & Anarchy & Mute Codes, Performance Art Depot Pad, Germany

2010 Mute codes, Bonnie Bird Theatre, Trinity Laban, London

2010 The Melancholic, Bonnie Bird Theatre, Trinity Laban, London

2009 Pop, The Marie LLoyd Bar, Hackney, London

2009 Spoiling my Perfect World,  Degree showcase, University of East London

2009 Broken Mundanity, University of East London

2008 The Angry Community, Cinema screening at Stratford Circus Theatre London

 

Publications

2016 Portraits of Hackney, Hoxton Mini Press, Jenny Lewis

2015 Make: Believe UK Design for Performance 2011-2015 The Society of British Theatre Designers Exhibition Catalogue

2014 Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology 100 Contemporary Artists, special edition

 

Published & Article Links & TV

2017

2015 http://www.londonlive.co.uk/news/2015-04-15/world-art-day

2012 http://www.fashioninstallation.com/2012/09/marie-brenneis.html

2012 http://www.morfae.com/1568-marie-brenneis/

2012 http://www.wiesbadener-kurier.de/lokales/kultur/theater/wie-aus-einer-anderen-welt_13063556.htm

2011 http://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/lokales/mainz/nachrichten-mainz/mit-mikrochip-im-kopf_11942693.htm

2009 http://www.uel.ac.uk/news/press-releases/2009/06/visualarts2.htm

 

Talks/Presentations

2019 -Where has all the colour gone? Art Academy of Latvia, Paradox Conference

2018  Gestalt Aesthetics: London Metropolitan University, PhD Seminars

2017  We’re Going Backwards: The Hong Kong academy for Performing Arts 

2017  Diverse Aesthetics: Paradox Conference, Conway Hall London

2017  Practice-based Research PhDs, Parnet Conference, Leeds University 

2016 Empirical Aesthetics:  NAFAE Conference, Lancaster University  

2015 Social Norms: The Dragon Café, mental fight club, Borough, London, 

2013 Wearable Futures: Ravensbourne University, London, 

2013 Layering Masks: Scenography Symposium, National Gallery, Prague Quadrennial, Prague, 

2013 Critical Costumes Symposium: Edge Hill University, Liverpool, 

2011  Mentor Talk, Photography (BA) Year 3, University of East London, Dec 2011 

2011- 2013 Discussing my Practice & Teaching Workshops on  at The Performance Art Depot, Mainz, Germany

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Art Directing/Choreography

2012 Feral, Vitrine Art Gallery, London 

2012 Epoche, Deptford Town Hall, London 

2009 On/off, London 

2010 The Doll, London May 

2011 Pierre Garoudi Fashion, London Fashion Week, Autumn/Winter show

 

 

Associate Member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors,

I am one half of the Collective Art Group: DollyOlli